Innovation is a category that includes all new products, typically branded and often unusual such as dissolving tea discs and tea concentrate in aerosol cans. Conventional teas are categorized under tea and functional and condition-specific teas are found under Health & Wellness. At origin, this is the catch-all for new machinery to process tea, tea harvesters and other mechanical advances.
Aarti Shah and Dan Bolton discuss challenges in the tea industry, focusing on innovation, oversupply, and regeneration. Shah highlighted the importance of systems thinking, collaboration, soil health, and modern technologies like gasification and biochar. They also discuss the need for government policies that promote tea and foster a strong consumer-driven business culture in Kenya.
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The Innovation Imperative: Where and How, not If In a time of change, the question is not whether to innovate, but how. For tea, it’s also urgent. There are challenges to business as usual everywhere: sustainable development, shifting consumer tastes and demographics, coffee competition, yields, costs, and quality, to name […]
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How would you describe the flavor of these ten teas? They are a representative selection from the many market innovations that are having at least initial success. They consistently get positive customer reviews, and favorable informative and non-hype press and industry coverage. Some of these surely will not maintain a […]
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Tea tech: robotics, computer vision, machine learning; Tea Sci: biogenetics, biomarkers; Soft $3: end-to-end logistics, sustainability, cost, productivity If you search online for “tea innovation news” most of the results will be about the surge of new products. These are creative and original. They are targeted to millennials, premiumization, […]
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Many companies in tea-producing regions around the world endeavor to improve the lives of women, their families, and communities. Celebrate Mother’s Day buy choosing gifts from conscious tea companies that care about making a difference.
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The tea industry runs on the backs of women. Their strong yet nimble fingers pluck the delicate buds from the trees, and sort the imperfect from the perfect leaves. Yet in many tea-producing countries, women are far more likely to live in extreme poverty and have less access to education. However, some people are striving to change that narrative by educating, empowering, and enabling women in tea to rise up and bring others with them. This Mother’s Day Tea Journey wants to celebrate the companies and individuals who are helping make a difference for mothers and female tea workers around the world.
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